Alternative uses of rice-straw in California. Final report
Interconnectedness and complexity are the hallmarks of almost every environmental problem and opportunity including the challenge of rice straw management in California. Although attempts are often made to solve environmental problems by working on single aspects, this rarely works, just as treating symptoms may do little to resolve diseases. The rice straw problem includes the physical system of the atmosphere, air basins, soils, and local and regional watersheds, and reaches the global scale with concern over atmospheric contribution of methane and implications for global warming. It includes the biological system of the rice crop, soil organisms, crop pests, and wildlife (both beneficial and harmful). And finally, it includes the economic and social systems of the rice grower, farm families, farm service industries, rural communities, the regional population, rice consumers around the world, fishermen and women, hunters, manufacturers of harvesting equipment, medical services, and potentially, builders and home buyers in the region.
- Research Organization:
- California Polytechnic State Univ., Renewable Energy Inst., San Luis Obispo, CA (United States); California State Air Resources Board, Research Div., Sacramento, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- California State Air Resources Board, Sacramento, CA (United States)
- OSTI ID:
- 642840
- Report Number(s):
- PB-98-153448/XAB; CNN: Contract CARB-94-330; TRN: 82290684
- Resource Relation:
- Other Information: PBD: Mar 1997
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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